The Big It

A.B. Guthrie Jr.

Ballantine Books

The Big Sky is the first of A.B. Guthrie's epic adventure novels of America's vast frontier.  It is a story as great as the land that inspired it, sweeping westward from Kentucky, up the Missouri River into Indian Country.  Towering above the novel is Guthrie's unforgettable hero, Boone Caudill, a true mountain man driven by a raging hunger for life and a longing for the blue sky and brown earth of the big, wild places.  A legend before he turns 20, Boone becomes a powerful White Savage, an untamed life force that only one woman, the beautiful daughter of a Blackfoot chief, would dare to love.  It is this magnificent spirit that Guthrie celebrates with his vivid storytelling--the glory of the bigness, the wildness, the freedom and undying dream of the West.

The Big Sky

Literature & Fiction

Houghton, Mifflin Company

After Buster Hogue is shot at the annual town picnic, plenty of motives appear, but no clues point to the sniper. A lot of people had reason to dislike Hogue or even to wish him dead because of personal and unhappy experience, but grudges donâ€™t count in the absence of evidence.Â Chick Charleston, the small-town Montana sheriff, has had no experience with this kind of case, the county not having been inclined to homicidal endeavors. Neither does his county office have the gadgets to ferret out the criminal. But he has patience, persistence, a sense of humor, and a sharp understanding of human nature. He also has a keen assistant in seventeen-year-old Jason Beard, pitcher for the Midbury baseball team and amateur detective, who takes notes and acts as Watson to Charlestonâ€™s Holmes. In the violent and surprising finale, young Jase plays a saving hand.Â There is humor in these pages, even earthy hilarity, but at no cost to mystery and suspense. Against the western background he knows so well, A. B. Guthrie Jr. has created a very human and believable sleuth in Chick Charleston, and in Jason Beard a singularly engaging narrator, whose accounts of local characters such as Loose Lancaster, Doc Yak, and old Mrs. Jenkins are guaranteed to entertain the reader.

Wild Pitch

Houghton/Mifflin

Not many people in Midbury especially liked F. Y. Grimsley, a rancher with twenty thousand acres and five hundred head of cattle. Still, when Grimsley is found dead on his back doorstep with a mysterious gash on his head, Chief Chick Charleston and his crew have to use their dusty detective skills to root out his killer. They are aided by Deputy Jason Beard, who, though he grew up in Midbury, has been away for two years at college, waiting to go out into the âreal world.âÂ In their small Montana community, Charleston and Beard must conduct their investigations delicately, ignoring local prejudice, sifting through gossip and speculation, enduring the pressures of higher-ups, dealing with some less-than-savory characters, and eliciting information from those who would prefer not to talk. And, not surprisingly, things get worse before they get better. A second body is discovered, and relations between the sheriff, the Indian reservation, and the town deteriorate until finding the murderer becomes more than just a matter of enforcing the lawâit becomes crucial to keeping the peace in this small ranching community.Â With an entertaining cast of characters and a vivid sense of Montana ranch land, The Genuine Article is a page-turning mystery of surprising warmth and humor. (20100701)

The Genuine Article

Dick Summers seeks the world he knew as hunter and mountain man and finds a happy marriage and good comradeship, but increasing settlement diminishes life on the upper Missouri

Fair Land, Fair Land

Genre Fiction

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Sheriff Chick Charleston asks Jason Beard, a deputy, to investigate the murder of an oil company stenographer who secretly moonlighted as a prostitute

Playing Catch-Up

Vacationing in an English village, Chick Charleston, a Montana sheriff, and his wife, decide to investigate when an unpopular guest at their inn is found murdered

Murder in the Cotswolds

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

These Thousand Hills

Signet

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The Big It

The Big Sky

Wild Pitch

The Genuine Article

Fair Land, Fair Land

Playing Catch-Up

Murder in the Cotswolds

These Thousand Hills

The Big Sky

The Big Sky